28 minutes later....zzzzzzz

Rating: Null/10 (23 October 2003)

ok, it didn't really put me to sleep and it is a pretty decent movie, it does entertain although it was not as scary as everyone told me and was not even close to as good as 'Trainspotting', which is why i went out and bought it in the first place. as i was watching it i kept thinking to myself that this movie has the exact same plot as 'night of the comet' and I'm surprised they got away with it... 99% of the population dead and everyone left is either infected and psychotic or completely normal. the two main characters in this one are Jim and Naomi (personally i'd rather watch the two cute valley girls from 'night of the comet') both films have very similar scenes too: raiding the supermarket instead of the mall, following directions from a radio station, running into a bunch of group of government people who offer to help but are really psychotic. Alex Garland's characters were dull and not developed at all. At least in 'The Beach', you cared about some of the characters, but in this one the only one you even cared about at all was Frank who Brendan Gleeson did an excellent job portraying. Cillian Murphy did a wonderful job as Jim (especially the ending) and Christopher Eccleston stole every scene he was in as the Major. She was not given much to work with as her character seemed to go nowhere, but I don't think that Naomie Harris could act her way out of a box. Megan Burns did a decent job portraying the worst character, Frank's daughter Hannah, and I look forward to seeing more of her work. the more and more I see Danny Boyle's pictures, especially 'the beach', the more I think that Trainspotting was a fluke. the dvd features are very good, although the deleted scenes could have been left on the editing room floor, the alternate endings weren't as good as they were hyped up to be and it seems like the filmakers couldn't make up their minds but i did like that even though they didn't shoot one of them, they show the storyboards with audible narration and dialogue. They really need to make a Trainspotting dvd with the same treatment. overall i give '28 days later...' 2 stars out of 5